About Davina
Davina Borges is a licensed independent mental health practitioner who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She works with clients facing parenting struggles, addiction, grief, and life transitions. Davina is based in Nebraska and speaks English.
Her style is direct and collaborative. Sessions focus on honest conversation and practical steps. She aims to treat people with respect and without stigma.
Davina blends talk-based methods with attention to bodily experience.
Background and approach
She uses Somatic approaches to help clients notice how the body holds stress. She also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas to build safety and trust in sessions. Cognitive Behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered when people need tools for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Davina adapts these methods to each person’s needs. She has six years of professional experience as a LIMHP - a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner.
Davina has worked with people affected by trauma and abuse, as well as those coping with ADHD, bipolar concerns, eating and sleeping struggles, and compassion fatigue. Getting started typically means a short intake and a plan that matches what the client wants to work on. Davina emphasizes collaboration, so therapy moves forward at a pace the client chooses.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Davina uses Somatic methods that focus on how the body reacts to stress and trauma, helping people notice physical sensations and learn ways to regulate them. Attachment-Based Therapy is also part of her work and looks at patterns in close relationships to help people build safer, more connected ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, respectful space where the client leads the conversation and the therapist follows.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Davina works with each person to identify which methods match their concerns, goals, and comfort level. Together they try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and different communication preferences, making it easier to keep momentum between sessions and access support from home or on the go.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English